The oregano plants are big and healthy right now, so enjoy this herb fresh right now and get extra to dry for use throughout the year. It can be dried in the dehydrator or hung in small bunches to air dry.
A quick story about our journey with oregano. We've been growing oregano for years and enjoyed it but always thought our oregano didn't have a very strong flavor. So we were curious when, a few years ago, we read in the Southern Exposure seed catalog the description of their oregano: "the flavorful Greek Oregano, not the flavorless oregano commonly available." So we bought some seed and it grew well. And in fact, this oregano had quite a bit stronger flavor. Another interesting difference was it bloomed white while the other blooms pink. In any case, we were excited and ready to make a complete switch to the new variety when we noticed something: the new variety was starting to suffer with some mildew diseases while our original variety was still going strong without any issues. The plants didn't die completely but couldn't be harvested from. So we kept both varieties to over winter. And again the next year, they both came on strong, but our original far outlasted the new one that again got disease. So we're continuing to grow both varieties of oregano, but the one because we like it better this time of year when we could grow either, and the other in order to extend the season after the variety we have now is done.
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